Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^^ 



the consumer does not know what clean milk is, and does not 

 ask for it, and is satisfied to pay for dirty milk at dirty milk 

 prices, then why should the dairyman produce clean milk ? What 

 is the use in legislating and enforcing city ordinances for a 

 product that the people do not want? The consumer should not 

 be willing to buy anything but clean milk. He should appreciate 

 the fact that clean milk costs more. Erf has found that it costs 

 only $9.00 per cow to produce milk any old way, and it costs 

 $54.00 to produce clean milk. The consumer can be assured 

 that the dairyman will take any necessary pains in producing milk 

 even to giving the cows a daily bath if consumers demand it 

 and will pay him for it. 



I believe the time is soon coming in some of our cities when 

 the health authorities, dairy farmers, milk dealers and consumers 

 will all work together for a wholesome milk supply. Such work- 

 ing arrangement is not impossible at the present time in some 

 of our cities. To accomplish this, the dirty dairies will need to 

 be brought up to a reasonable sanitary condition, the health 

 authorities asking for nothing unreasonable. The dairyman 

 should be protected from unfair prosecution and from the com- 

 petition of dirty milk, which now sells for the same price as 

 clean milk in many instances. The interests of the public and 

 of the dairymen are one, and just as soon as they can be made to 

 see this, many of the present difficulties in the clean milk crusade 

 will disappear. What most of us need is not more dairy knowl- 

 edge but a better application of that we already know. 



